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title: “Go and travel with it, and show it off,” said he, “and you will bec… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 13

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“Go and travel with it, and show it off,” said he, “and you will become a rich man; but be careful first to ask the tanuki’s leave, and also to perform some magic ceremonies to prevent him from running away at the sight of the people.”

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**Who acts:** Jimmu, you · **What happens:** go, travel, show off, say, become, be · **To what, where:** kettle, rich man, leave, magic ceremonies, Jimmu, sight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jimmu, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:39:13
# text = “Go and travel with it, and show it off,” said he, “and you will become a rich man; but be careful first to ask the tanuki’s leave, and also to perform some magic ceremonies to prevent him from running away at the sight of the people.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	travel	travel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
29	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	28	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	also	also	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	perform	perform	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
41	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	43	det	_	_
42	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
48	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	advcl	_	_
49	away	away	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	at	at	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **travel** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with kettle | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **show off** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | kettle |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jimmu |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **become** *in a quote* | future | you | a rich man |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | careful, first *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the tanuki's leave |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient |
| 8 | **perform** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | some magic ceremonies |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=Theme |
| 9 | **prevent** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | Jimmu |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme |
| 10 | **run away** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  | the sight of the people |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Trajectory |
| 11 | **sight** *in a quote* |  |  | the people |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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